Identify and correct 10 mistakes in the following passage
EXERCISE 2: Identify and correct 10 mistakes in the following passage.
Have you ever stopped thinking about the things you eat with? While knives have been known since old times, forks have been with us for a very shorter time. Most people in the West almost always used their fingers to eat until the fork became common at the end of the seventeenth century. People would have knives to cut their meat and a kind of spoon to eat soup with, but the fork as we know these days was rare. However, forks did exist in the kitchen. These were large and used for holding meat while it was being cut.
Forks for eating was first introduced into Europe through the Byzantine Empire in about 1100 and slowly spread northerly through Italy and France in the sixteenth century, rich people in England began to carry a case contained a knife, fork and spoon, which they would use when they ate.
Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, knives and forks became more alike we know them today. They were produced in large amounts and became the traditional way of eating in Western countries.
Have you ever stopped thinking about the things you eat with? While knives have been known since old times, forks have been with us for a very shorter time. Most people in the West almost always used their fingers to eat until the fork became common at the end of the seventeenth century. People would have knives to cut their meat and a kind of spoon to eat soup with, but the fork as we know these days was rare. However, forks did exist in the kitchen. These were large and used for holding meat while it was being cut.
Forks for eating was first introduced into Europe through the Byzantine Empire in about 1100 and slowly spread northerly through Italy and France in the sixteenth century, rich people in England began to carry a case contained a knife, fork and spoon, which they would use when they ate.
Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, knives and forks became more alike we know them today. They were produced in large amounts and became the traditional way of eating in Western countries.